Cliver vs Clive - What's the difference?
cliver | clive |
(obsolete, or, dialectal) clever
* {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Harold Bindloss, title=The Buccaneer Farmer, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There's ways a cliver agent can run up a reckoning, and when you want Mireside I'll have to gan." "}}
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=Robert Michael Ballantyne, title=The World of Ice, chapter=, edition=
, passage="Ah, but it's a cliver trick, no doubt of it."}}
* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=George Eliot, title=Silas Marner, chapter=, edition=
, passage=For I've often a deal inside me as'll never come out; and for what you talk o' your folks in your old country niver saying prayers by heart nor saying 'em out of a book, they must be wonderful cliver ; for if I didn't know "Our Father", and little bits o' good words as I can carry out o' church wi' me, I might down o' my knees every night, but nothing could I say."}}
* {{quote-book, year=1831, author=Edward Bulwer-Lytton, title=Eugene Aram, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Oh, they be cliver creturs, and they'll do what they likes with old Nick, when they gets there, for 'tis the old gentlemen they cozens the best; and then," continued the Corporal, waxing more and more loquacious, for his appetite in talking grew with that it fed on,--"then there be another set o' queer folks you'll see in Lunnon, Sir, that is, if you falls in with 'em,--hang all together, quite in a clink.}}
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- someone who lived near a cliff ( (etyl) clif ).
derived from the surname. Popular in Britain in mid-twentieth century.
* 1949 (Mazo de la Roche), Mary Wakefield , Dundurn Press (2009), ISBN 1550028774, page 132:
A village in Alberta.
A city in Iowa.
A town in New Zealand.
A village in Shropshire, England.
As an adjective cliver
is clever.As a proper noun Clive is
{{surname|topographic|from=Old English}} - someone who lived near a cliff ( Old English clif).As a verb clive is
to climb; ascend.As a noun clive is
burdock or agrimony.cliver
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(en proper noun)- "I suppose you," she said, "were named for General Clive ." "I was. And my father was named for General Brock."